Nicholas believes it is Arsenal’s inability to start a game on the front foot that results in a lack of fluency and, at times, making a team of stars look very ‘average’.

‘Arsenal, when they don’t start well, go sluggish and sit in, thinking they can find their rhythm, it doesn’t work like that. It doesn’t fit them,’ Nicholas told Sky Sports.

‘They had to drag themselves back in it at Old Trafford, I’ll give them that, but they were really so poor in that game, and they have been like that. Against Spurs they got themselves 1-0 up and by the end are hanging in. That’s three or four weeks.’

Arsenal threw away a lead against PSG on Wednesday night. (Picture: Getty)